On Mon, 28 Jan 2008, Jim Paris wrote: > Sorry to revive an old topic from 3-4 weeks ago, but I just got my X61 > this past week and so I missed my chance to chime in. And, as far as > I can tell, Ben ended with "I'm pretty lost by now". Was a decent > solution ever found? If not, where can I code to help? :) Actually, one will be available on 2.6.25 :p > In my tests, the only way I've been able to get reliable backlight > control is to blacklist "video.ko" and use "thinkpad_acpi > brightness_enable=0". Then, the "intel" X driver handles it: For now, that *is* the best way, yes. For 2.6.25, you can tell video.ko to NOT load a brightness interface, so you won't have to blacklist it. If you have problems getting the brightness key events, you can load video.ko, then unload it. > Unfortunately, that's independent of the hotkeys and > gnome-power-manager knows nothing about it. I suppose I could fix the > hotkeys with acpid handlers if necessary. Try the load/unload video.ko trick, first. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
